The Kogi State Police Command has reported that two people have been rescued from the attack on worshippers on the Akpamoba-Igbola prayer mountain in the Agbaja neighbourhood of the Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State last Friday.
The victims were named as Pastors Adura Kayode and Kingsley Ebong of the City of Grace Prophetic Liberation Church by the command spokesperson, ASP William Aya, who also verified their rescue.
The spokesperson said that the pastors who had been saved had been reunited with their families and that security personnel were still searching the nearby woodland for further kidnapped congregants.
Security personnel were tasked by Comrade Abdullahi Adamu, Chairman of the Lokoja Local Government Council, to continue the search, purge the forest of all criminal elements, and restore order.
The chairman urged locals to maintain their composure as security forces pursue the offenders in a statement issued by his Special Adviser, Yusuf Bala.
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The statement further explained that the worshippers were attacked by some armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, during a night vigil last Friday at Akpamoba-Igbola Mountain in the Agbaja area, saying that they whisked an unspecified number of them into the bush.
The rescue of the two pastors has brought the number of freed victims to three, including a woman, Mary Adams Gur, who regained her freedom on the night of the incident when men of the state vigilante services stormed the forest.
